Why Berlingos are best (the REAL reason, apart from them not trendy enough, and thus run out of, 'bought-boho' Gweek)

page created 17th Sept 2026

 this section ( a side page of the as yet unindexed very well read main posting section) needs putting together with a few other things long riffed upon

soon...

all of which at times riff into REAL simple van life (by necessity) from three years back in the main  material...

a bit of a Proustian stream of consciousness.. the audios are the best bit

But i also for many years attempt to maintain evocative or poignant imagery to go along with the stories..

I am a better storyteller than photographer in that I do have an 'eye' but don't have the kit to do fancy technically  adequate photos...or laptop power to edit them.

But there will be many added to this page, soon.

but as i have so many superfans who pile in rather predictably day after day, from mid morn, here's a quick sneaky preview of how such cheap users,  can save even more money than   by not spending any on a coffee for me  at my unused link to it https://www.ralphschism.com/p/index-at-last.html    (none do as i guess I'm not pretty enough as the many pretty suposedly #vanlife women pout whilst saying so little of any REAL use, as in two audios below, to even my daughter if she ever wanted to do REAL #vanlife     )  

free Substack audios

Why Berlingo vans are best for #vanlife Part 1 of 2. see url below for free webpage on this.

https://ralphschism.substack.com/p/why-berlingo-vans-are-best-for-vanlife

PART 2 

Why the Berlingo is best van for #vanlife touring, or living in your ‘car’ - even in LA. The REAL reasons; not silly fake Jenny-come-lately nonsense. The ECONOMICS of van ownership that matter. 

https://ralphschism.substack.com/p/why-the-berlingo-is-best-van-for 

references 

Average rental costs for new tenancies were up 2.6% in July compared with a year earlier, according to property website Zoopla.

That remains lower than the rate of rising prices in general, but the property portal has forecast annual rent rises among privately rented homes will hit 4% or 5% by the end of the year.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gqjv476qeo

illustrations of the sadly a bit BPD one who didn't maintain her 'interest' in what she said she desperately needed...

(and i always add in a lil' bit of story....sometimes some philosophy....sometimes quite a lot of story.... sometimes even including a bit of scandal.... sometimes quite a lot)

A LOT MORE WILL GO ON THIS PAGE BUILDING UP BERLINGO STORIES

soon

his story is when it goes not so peacefully

i spent most of the spring and summer 2025 attempting to rev up stories as per audio 2

a portable solar unit on the car of a woman living in it however there is a story.... 

my real story... for five plus years attempting to bolster various randomly met into WRITING their stories - their bees in their bonnets; and as so many seem to have rather lost the art, carting around a library of the better books - almost all my 'luggage' is in fact several hundred novels stowed under the bed...

.... and starting them off that way.

It worked on one....

at famous perfect atch (atchin tan) - above Veryan, audio 2,  where sadly the window breakers visit too... hence keep lowest profile.

 videos not live until 18 sept 2026

And then 100s of pics of the most show off fancy performative vehiclism I've ever seen..

The ultimate Hooray Henry, attention seeker of the South West

 actually deployed as virtue signalling  attention grabber. Funny that, in just about the most military Industrial complex profiteer millionaires hidey-hole  of them all....